On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:28:36PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 06:48:00PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > is not necessary with the new version. However the potato install manual has > > you always need the -m switch when installing yaboot manually in > potato, even if your machine is not as picky as the imacs and blue G3s > about what format the bootfile is (they require Forth bootinfo format, > not ELF), the newwer machines disable any textual output which makes > interacting with yaboot impossible, my ofboot scripts restore this > before executing yaboot. > > > a different version of that command, the -m flag is > > > > -m /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot > > yes > > > so I'm wondering where your version came from? > > so am i, that has been gone ever since potato r2 came out, or maybe > even r1... very very long time ago. nearly a year now.
You have to realize that, especially with pressed CDs and announced releases, a year is not a very long time even in the software life cycle. It's only because PPC released with potato that we don't get more hamm questions here :) -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
